Playing the other : gender and society in classical Greek literature
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Playing the other : gender and society in classical Greek literature
(Women in culture and society : a series / edited by Catharine R. Stimpson)
University of Chicago Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780226979212
Description
Relations between the sexes was a concern of ancient Greek thought and literature, extending from considerations of masculine and feminine roles in domestic and political spheres to the organization of the cosmos in a pantheon of gods and goddesses. This study explores the diversity and complexity of these interactions through the influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods ranging from epic (Homer) and didactic poetry (Hesiod) to the theatrical productions of tragedy and comedy in 5th-century Athens. The author demonstrates the workings of gender as a major factor in Greek social, religious and cultural practices and in ideas about nature and culture, public and private, citizen and outsider, self and other, and mortal and immortal. Focusing on the prominence of female figures in these male authored texts, she enlarges perspectives on critical components of political order and civic identity by including issues of sexuality, the body, modes of male and female maturation, and speculations about parentage, kinship and reproductive strategies.
Along with considerations of genre, poetics and theatrical mimesis, she points to the powerful myth-making capacities of Greek culture for creating memorable paradigms and dramatic scenarios that far exceed simple notions of male and female opposition and predictable enforcement of social norms.
Table of Contents
Foreword Catharine R. Stimpson Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Abbreviations Introduction Pt. 1: Gender and Paradigm: The Privileged Models 1: Figuring Fidelity in Homer's Odyssey 2: Signifying Difference: The Case of Hesiod's Pandora 3: The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in Aeschylus's Oresteia Pt. 2: Gender and the Body: The Woman's Story 4: The Politics of Eros in the Danaid Trilogy of Aeschylus 5: The Body's Revenge: Dionysos and Tragic Action in Euripides' Hekabe Pt. 3: Gender and Selfhood: The Boy's Story 6: The Power of Aphrodite: Eros and the Boundaries of the Self in Euripides' Hippolytos 7: Mysteries of Identity and Designs of the Self in Euripides' Ion Pt. 4: Gender and Mimesis: Theater and Identity 8: Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama 9: Travesties of Gender and Genre in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazousae Bibliography Index of Key Passages General Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780226979229
Description
Relations between the sexes was a concern of ancient Greek thought and literature, extending from considerations of masculine and feminine roles in domestic and political spheres to the organization of the cosmos in a pantheon of gods and goddesses. This study explores the diversity and complexity of these interactions through the influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods ranging from epic (Homer) and didactic poetry (Hesiod) to the theatrical productions of tragedy and comedy in 5th-century Athens. The author demonstrates the workings of gender as a major factor in Greek social, religious and cultural practices and in ideas about nature and culture, public and private, citizen and outsider, self and other, and mortal and immortal. Focusing on the prominence of female figures in these male authored texts, she enlarges perspectives on critical components of political order and civic identity by including issues of sexuality, the body, modes of male and female maturation, and speculations about parentage, kinship and reproductive strategies.
Along with considerations of genre, poetics and theatrical mimesis, she points to the powerful myth-making capacities of Greek culture for creating memorable paradigms and dramatic scenarios that far exceed simple notions of male and female opposition and predictable enforcement of social norms.
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